How do you say Catch 22 in Arabic?
Aljazeera is claiming that Palestinians in Lebanon gain rights, but it is unclear exactly how:
The Lebanese government has granted some 400,000 Palestinians living in the country the right to work in professions they had been banned from for decades.
Human rights groups welcomed Tuesday's parliamentary vote as a step forward but said the bill still fell short of what is needed.
Under the new bill, Palestinians still cannot own property and are not eligible for social security or health insurance benefits.
Because they will be treated as foreign workers, they are also still barred from certain occupations that the country's laws allow only Lebanese to hold.
No reciprocity
Being essentially stateless also means further hardships for Palestinians.
Gaining entry as a foreigner into prestigious jobs in Lebanon such as law, medicine and engineering requires the prospective employee to belong to the relevant professional society, most of which require the employee's home country to reciprocate.
For a Palestinian, there is no home country.
"If you're a Palestinian born and raised in Lebanon and your dream is to become a doctor, you're out of luck", Nadim Houry, the Beirut director of Human Rights Watch, told the Associated Press news agency.
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